TEDOM

TEDOM a.s is a Czech engineering company. It was founded in 1991 in Třebíč by Josef Jeleček. Over time it grew to include companions Vlastimil Vildman, Richard and Jiří Horký Kalista.

Originally, the company was an s.r.o. In 1994 it became a holding and in 2010 it transformed into TEDOM a.s.

The company name originated as a portmanteau of word "warm of home" (in Czech "teplo domova"). Its activity is the development and production of cogeneration units with gas combustion engines. Its portfolio has grown over time. In 2013 TEDOM also produced trigeneration units, heat pumps with internal combustion engines and gas engines, all of its own design.

Between 2004 and 2012 TEDOM produced buses and from 2006 to 2008, trucks. The company also supplied engines for railway locomotives of the 810 series to motor unit 814. By 2008, it produced and delivered electricity and thermal energy for Prague.

TEDOM factory

TEDOM factory

Energy engineering

The first cogeneration unit was a four-cylinder gasoline engine 1.3 from Škoda Favorit with 22 kW. In 1993 it built its first six-cylinder 12 L diesel from the truck LIAZ 100 series. In 1995 it established capital ties with a production site in Hořovice and produced its 100th unit. The following year it made its first unit with a Caterpillar engine.

In 2003 they completed a project for the electrical facility in Vyčapy u Třebíče and bought the former engine plant of the bankrupt automaker LIAZ. Two years later, company started to produce high-mounted units with Deutz engines. In 2008 they made two thousand CHP units and total installed capacity reached nearly 500 MW.

In 2007, TEDOM had sales of 2.1 billion (excluding revenues from energy produced) and earned 150 million crowns. In 2008 it split into two parts, transferring 25% of its assets to the TTS Holding producing energy, while 75% remained in TEDOM Holding. The former was the agreement by the partners who separated in favor of companions of Richard Horký. The transaction value was 60 million. Since then TEDOM was devoted only production technology.

In March 2012, the company achieved significant success when it concluded the largest Czech energy company CEZ contract for the supply and service of cogeneration units, covering 100 cogeneration units with a total capacity of over 100 MW.

Road vehicles

TEDOM C 12 G

Buying Jablonec engine plant gave TEDOM the know-how that made it possible to establish a bus division and begin to assemble low-floor bus chassis with its own natural gas engines. In 2004 TEDOM became the third biggest bus manufacturer in the Czech Republic, behind Karosa and SOR.

The company's original plan was to build 1,000 units per annum. Instead, it produced 47 buses in 2008 and 60 vehicles in 2009, falling to 0 in 2011. Production ended in January 2012. Total production since 2004 was 200 units.

Similarly, plans to produce 5,000 LIAZ 400 series trucks per year also faltered and only 19 were made (including 9 emerged with the reconstruction of the older LIAZ).

External links

• Official website

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